6 posts from December

A mini month in review (with a photo on 9th Street by William Klayer)

• New Yorkers Foodmarket is closing soon on 2nd Avenue (Dec. 20) 

• Displaced 14th Street tenants seek support after city orders them to vacate their building (Dec. 18) 

• Up in the under-restoration bell tower at Most Holy Redeemer (Dec. 14) 

• Landmarks Preservation Commission approves hotel project that could potentially damage the city's oldest residential landmark (Dec. 13) 

• The Joyce Theater Foundation completes purchase of the former Boys' Club on 10th Street and Avenue A (Dec. 5) 

• City officials help facilitate successful meal handout for asylum seekers in the East Village (Dec. 4)

Week in Grieview

Posts from this past holiday week included (with a photo of the Most Holy Redeemer bell tower on 3rd Street — see link below for more)...

• Crowdfunding help for the residents displaced by Madison Reality Capital construction on 14th Street (Wednesday) 

• 'Everything must go' as the New Yorkers Foodmarket sets Dec. 31 closing (Thursday) ... A last look at the New Yorkers Foodmarket (Saturday) 

• Hamilton Fish Park Library closing for a 2-plus year renovation (Friday) 

• A super soft opening at Barnyard Cheese Shop, back in biz on B (Tuesday) 

• EV classic B&H Dairy is back open with a new front door and windows (Friday) 

• When it was time to light up the clocks on the bell tower at Most Holy Redeemer (Sunday) 

• A new era for EV mainstay Anna (Friday) 

• Archie's Press is on the move (across 10th Street) (Wednesday) 

• Openings: Instant Noodle Factory on 7th Street (Thursday)

• A look at the new home of 55 Express Tailor Repair on 4th Street (Thursday) 

• Petopia reopens on Avenue A (Tuesday) 

• Mr. Pizza ready to announce himself on 1st Avenue (Friday) 

• Suds Buds is the name of the rebranded Wash 'N Clean Laundromat on 14th Street (Thursday) 

• Stocking up for MulchFest (Monday) 

• Now that it's Dec. 26... (Tuesday)

... and another Clint Mario for you... this is on Fourth Avenue near 10th Street...

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Now that it's New Year's Eve, let's prep for St. Patrick's Day

Photo by Edmund John Dunn 

As seen yesterday at Target on 14th and A... still not close to the March 17 merch spread as once seen at the (RIP!) Kmart on Astor Place...

Saturday's parting shot

Photo by Derek Berg 

Today's charcuterie board is sponsored by the Department of Sanitation...

A last look at the New Yorkers Foodmarket

Photos by Steven 

The New Yorkers Foodmarket is winding down business at 107 Second Ave. between Sixth Street and Seventh Street.

Owner Michael Schumacher put all items in the grocery on sale back on Thursday with a Sunday (Dec. 31) closing date in mind. He told customers on Friday that if he sold enough of the remaining stock, he would not reopen this weekend. 

The store did eventually open this afternoon around 2 ... there were a few items left here and there...

It's not yet known if the market will return for one more day.

As we first reported on Dec. 20, ongoing financial challenges and health issues forced Schumacher to close the store that he has been part of since 1987, when he and his brother bought what was an Associated. 

Read more here.

Noted

Photo by Steven 

Yesterday we noted the arrival of the Mr. [$1.50] Pizza signage at 186 First Ave. 

As you can see, the $1.50 is now taped over. Perhaps the price was meant to be a surprise. Or maybe they've already decided to change the price. Or maybe this is the work of some tape vandals/bandits.

Former illegal cannabis dispensary now for rent on 1st Avenue and 11th Street

For rent signs arrived this past week at the storefront on the SE corner of First Avenue and 11th Street. (H/T Steven.)

This had been the Recreational Plus Cannabis Dispensary, an illegal shop that had been busted several times. (A Restraining Order was visible inside the front window here at 180 First Ave.)

The business' Yelp page still notes, "Recreational Plus East Village is temporarily closed. Scheduled to reopen on January 1, 2024.") 

The signage arrived for Recreational Plus in October... it was later removed, though the shop remained in operation.

The previous retail tenant here was Eleven Consignment Boutique, which closed amid a legal battle in November 2019.

This building, with the dual Michael Jackson murals, is also for sale. 

Saturday's opening shot

Morning view of Seventh Street from outside Cooper Union...

'Anyway' you want it

 

In this season of the listicle, we'll put La Sécurité's album Stay Safe from June on the under-rated list.

The video here from the Montreal band is for "Anyway." 

Headline H/T

Mr. Pizza ready to announce himself on 1st Avenue

We were just wondering whatever happened to Mr. Pizza... the coming-soon signage had disappeared from outside 186 First Ave. between 11th Street and 12th Street. (H/T Steven!)

And just like that, this morning, Mr. Pizza (or maybe Mr. $1.50 Pizza) is ready to be installed on the storefront. (The interior still has a ways to go.)

Anyway, as you guessed, this will be another discount pizza shop once it opens. 

This is the first business for the retail space since Handsome Dan's Snocone & Candy Stand closed here between 11th Street and 12th Street in September 2018. 

In early October 2018, a six-alarm fire next door at 188 First Ave. caused extensive damage to the surrounding properties ... and the residential spaces at No. 186 and No. 188 remain without tenants.